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The core ideal of personalized learning is that education should be student centered and driven rather than standardized for all.
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
This is a disgusting chart.
There are so many “markets” that look like this - spend more, get less. But our kids’ education isn’t a market. It’s their salvation.
We need to fix this and embrace competition. Parents need reasonable alternatives to push back on the fact that our kids aren’t b... See more
Chamath Palihapitiyax.comThe weirdest and most horrifying thing about the school choice discourse was the apparently universal assumption, on left and right, that the only thing that matters about schools is student population. On the left the takeaway was that by removing a child from a school you wronged the school; on the right the takeaway was that there is no hope for... See more
Kelsey Piperx.comis currently a proposal on record which seems at first to make a great deal of sense. It has been prepared by Christopher Jencks of the Center for the Study of Public Policy and is sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. It proposes to put educational “entitlements” or tuition grants into the hands of parents and students for expenditure i
... See moreIvan Illich • Deschooling Society (Education)
We hear about the challenges faced by schools losing enrollment due to voucher programs.
What I hope people, especially school leaders, take away: the common point of demand of parents is “Academic rigor”.
It’s all over the article – and all over surveys about what parents want from educatio... See more
The bubble of low-performing schools in the US is starting to deflate: starting with for-profit schools, which show alarmingly low effect on income among students, like Corinthians Colleges in recent years.
Alberto Arenaza • university as a platform
Public school enrollment increased 5% since 2000.
But administrators increased 95%!
“Places that have stronger teachers’ unions had larger administrative bloat problems...” says @DeAngelisCorey. “They’re insulated from competition.” https://t.co/IMlfrDjJta
John Stosselx.comSACKS: “The public schools in America are not run for the benefit of the kids. They're run for the benefit of the teachers unions. We saw this during COVID.” https://t.co/guXj0kgtSZ
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